Lazy rice in space: gravity regulates helical movement in plants

Abstract

Circumnutation, the helical movement of organs, has been observed in diverse species of land plants. Whether circumnutation arises purely from internal growth oscillations or as a response to exogenous forces such as gravity is a subject of active debate. By observing rice seedlings grown under microgravity at the International Space Station (ISS) and analyzing the agravitropic lazy1 mutant, Kobayashi et al. (2019) propose gravity as the causal force that regulates circumnutation of rice coleoptiles.

Published in

Physiologia Plantarum
2019, Volume: 165, number: 3, pages: 448-450
Publisher: WILEY

SLU Authors

• Baral, Anirban

  • Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Botany


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.12925

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99057